.00001 Billion Rising: Another Failed Mass Movement

It’s impossible to hold a protest in the Bay Area without the word “Palestinian” cropping up at least once, regardless of how irrelevant it is to the theme of the event. This “one-state solution” button was at least phrased less abrasively than the usual anti-Israel message.

Oh, I forgot: The whole point of 1 Billion Rising is to DANCE. Dance away rape, dance away violence, dance away patriarchy. The exact mechanism for how this works is left unclear, but whatever. To that end, various dance troupes were brought in to entertain the crowd, most of whom were, frankly, decidedly mediocre. The one exception were the Bollywood dancers, who stole the show.

They were so good, they get two photos.

For some reason this participant drew an inflatable sex doll on her placard. Not quite sure what message was intended by this.

A few MSM reporters showed up and were visibly disappointed. So mostly they just lounged around and chatted, since there was very little at the event worth reporting on. Here, Patti Lee of KTVU sips coffee and kills time with her colleagues.

This reporter from Telemundo apparently did not get the memo that the patriarchy has been smashed, and anachronistically dressed in heteronormative style.

In the organizers’ trailer parked right next to the stage, the security guard (or perhaps he was a sound engineer) sat playing video games.

But when I checked him out a short time later, he was now watching some kind of “Girls Gone Wild” softcore porn. Which, considering that he was inches away from a feminist rally, struck me as absolutely hilarious.

If they really cared about women's safety, they'd be rallying against the gun control laws in the city where they're standing. Anyone is welcome to provide evidence to the contrary but I'm pretty sure a vastly greater number of rapes have been deterred by handguns in comparison to any form of dancing.

When I was a kid the state I lived in (definitely not California) dealt with rapists in kind of a unique way. Upon conviction they were sent to one of the most notorious state prisons in the country. Once they were in the general population somebody tipped off the other inmates that they had a rapist in their midst. Six weeks max and they did the dance of a hundred shivs. Problem solved.

Of course the real reason for this is to keep the income flowing to Ensler and to keep some sistas employed. Get it into politician's minds that their re-election chances hinge on showing their anti-rape credentials by approving substantial grant awards to various community groups.

Patti Lee? is she not the one who rattled off the names of the Flight Crew that bounced on the runway, did she get demoted to field reporter after that instead of anchor? You could have focused on more of the discarded porn, I am doing research. You Go Zombie!

Not to appear pendantic, but if, as you say, the high end of the SF attendee list was 400, then it was actually 0.0000004 billion.

Everything the liberal touches becomes some sort of trolling party. The leader of this movement is clearly a self aggrandizing hustler on the order of the best race hustlers out there. What's not to like?